The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded its prestigious Clean Air Excellence Award to the Port of Long Beach for the Green Flag Program. Port officials received the award today, May 13, at the 9th Annual Clean Air Excellence Awards held in Washington D.C. This is the second year in a row that the Port has earned the recognition, one of ...
Terminal operator Scotto & Co. Srl (Neri Group) in the Port of Livorno, Italy, has recently commissioned a 100-tonne G HMK 4406 Mobile Harbour Crane from Gottwald Port Technology GmbH (Gottwald). This is the first Gottwald crane for Scotto. At the same time it is the first unit of Generation 5 Harbour Crane Model 4, launched by Gottwald at the end of 20...
A sophisticated instrument called wave rider buoy, costing Rs 1 crore, has been installed at Gangavaram port to sense any disturbance in the sea, it was reported. The instrument warns of approaching menace in the forms of tsunamis and cyclones. It can also be used to detect movements of fish. Source: Transportweekly
In January-April 2009, Vladivostok Container Terminal (VCT LLC, part of FESCO Group) handled 57,520 TEU (-20.7%, year-on-year) including 15,533 TEU in April (-16.06%, year-on-year), FESCO Department of Corporate Communication reports. In April export totaled 5,356 TEU, import - 4,812 TEU, coastal trade transshipment 5,365 TEU. Loaded/empty containers ra...
Container traffic at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will plunge by double digits this year, dragged down by the worldwide recession that is reducing demand for such products as automobiles, televisions and heavy machinery, according to a forecast to be released today. The twin ports, the nation's largest, will handle 12.4 million so-called...
Paradeep Port Trust (PPT) plans to construct one oil berth for handling POL (petroleum, oil and lubricants) products at an investment of Rs 172.97 crore. The berth which would have a capacity of 10 million tonnes (mt) per annum is scheduled for commissioning by March 2012. K Raghuramaiah, chairman, PPT said, “The new berth would be funded by PPT&rs...
In January-April 2009, seaport Kavkaz (Krasnodar territory, Azov Sea) handled 1.958 million tonnes of cargo (+19.6%, year-on-year), Taman branch of RosMorPort FSUE informs according to Interfax. In the reported period, transshipment of oil products amounted to 1 mln 99,810 tonnes, general cargo - 300,100 tonnes. Turnover of the port’s railw...
The list of Russian ports available for visa-free entry of foreigners includes Big Port of St. Petersburg, Vyborg port and St. Petersburg Passenger Port (Marine Facade complex). Apart from the above ports, preferential regime will be applied in Kaliningrad, Vladivostok, Novorossiysk, Sochi and Korsakov (Sakhalin region). The corresponding document has bee...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
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